Nothing is to be gained from this movie. It's not scary or interesting, let alone entertaining - just boring and eventually depressing.
Do yourself a favor - skip it. I wish I had.
The shill reviews on IMDb are getting rather tedious as well.
share...hey, can someone please tell us the ending?...with spoiler warnings for others of course...but hey, would like to know...thanks!
shareSure.
She's on Skype with her mom. The power goes out. The stalker (who really is just some completely random guy) comes out of the shadows and grabs her. The girl struggles while her mom is screaming and crying to let her child go. Off screen the sound of packing tape is heard. The mom continues to scream but now can only hear the girl's muffled cries for help. The mom reports the attack to the police. The stalker walks over to the laptop, stares at it a moment while the mom pleads for her daughter's life, then closes the laptop lid.
Midway through the credits the police show up to her apartment and she's not there.
There was no twist, no a-ha moment... it was all just a random man that I'm assuming raped and later killed the girl. Hearing the mom helplessly beg and cry for her daughter's life is what made me feel ill.
The writers (and whomever is writing fake reviews) can call the film groundbreaking or important for exposing the horrors of modern technology, but that's really just a load of *beep* It's a shallow, listless film that tried to disguise itself as a horror film.
thanks CS, I was thinking all the good reviews were kinda BS....I won't bother based on what sounds like a really crappy ending to fairly unremarkable film...thanks again!
shareNo problemo!
shareTotall agree. Completely worthless movie. They could of done this wayyyyyy better.
Also, the camera movement the entire movie pissed me off LOL cause it was just irritating. I know they tried to make it look like he could see everything from her phone but yeh still find it very annoying.
Also the end was VERYYYYYYY bad. Yeah it deserves 1/10
24 minutes in it felt like an hour had passed. Then just as the film got interesting it would bottom out again. Then the end... yes I made it to the end and... ziltch.
Anyone watching knew the ultimate denouement would be the stalker finally grabbing her but I at least hoped we'd get to find out who it was! Sure "real life" don't work dat way but this is a movie! We're left with a headline of "College student..." well we don't know what we're left with. The tag on scene of the cops arriving with the shot being from I guess the TV (all those long room shots were not coming from her laptop) cuts out just as one officer is entering the bedroom which is the last place the stalker\intruder took the taped up Emma. Hopes for a line like "We have a body" or "This room is clear" dashed by the film just ending.
Like so many thriller\horror films this film cut out before any real ending could be revealed. Here it appears to be choice. Just to leave us all uneasy, at least that being the intended result. What it left me with is feeling ripped off and pissed off. So many films in this genre do this "non-ending" it is becoming cliche and, in my opinion, a out for writers and directors who do not really know how to end a film to just pretend it is ambiguous. Lazy is more like it.
So our assumptions have to prevail. 1. Poor innocent Mike is dead. 2. The stalker killed the cat. 3. Emma is being held captive in a basement waiting for Spider-Man to rescue her. 4. Emma is dead on the bed. 5. Emma was taken out somehow with no one noticing to that stalker's lair, raped repeatedly, and then killed. Her body then tossed into the east river.
The actress Ashley Benson was the only shining aspect. I have not seen her TV show so this was the first time watching her act and I was impressed. She kept me watching when I wanted to quit.
That's for the info. I was going to check this out but wanted to investigate first. Now I'll pass. Dour movies like this are just another variation of the torture porn genre. Basically a cleaned up snuff-film.
Waste of time and energy.
I disagree. Plenty to be gained in that many people do tend to be careless in life. Films like this, while one should not be paranoid, one should not act clueless to what's going on and be safe.
Everyone should have some kind of protection near them, especially when going out. That's why people own guns. But even OC Pepper Spray would have worked.
Also I'm always surprised how I can walk up from behind so many people who never, ever look back once in awhile while walking. They could have easily be hit over the head and not know a thing.
Most crimes can easily be prevented if one practice safety.
Like someone else said here, after the door was unlocked she didn't get a gun, change her locks...or anything. That's crazy.
When I saw a number of these films and read a lot of true crime stories as a teen, I went out and got me OC Pepper spray and I'm always aware of my surroundings when I go out.
You fvkkin serious, mate? Megan? ROFL!
shareThought it was enjoyable, Just thought the stalker should of been revealed at the end. Should of been someone she met or crossed paths with during the movie. Seen posts that it was the guy at the bar who took her photo. or maybe in the lecturer she had a meeting with earlier in the movie.
shareIt definitely was the guy at the bar, but not the one who took the photo, the first guy the asked and looked quite surprised (like he had been caught red handed).
shareExactly, if you look at the credits.. they say, stalker - Dylan (I forget last name)
And if you stop the film during the bar shot, it says, Dylan is the first guy at the bar, the one who turns around (not the one that takes pic and gives unwanted phone number.)
My problem with that, is wasn't the stalker 'in her house' during the bar scene? How can he be 2 places at once?
And after all that endless 'watching', we def should have known what happened to Emma. The cops should have said something. I saw the duct tape on the floor, but it was too dark to see anything else.
Left me very 'wanting more' , I guess. And if the cops had a mom on the phone saying, 'my daughters being attacked' would they really have knocked on the door or just bum rushed and came in. They seemed so polite, for someone being attacked', especially since they had a previous report saying, she had someone messing with her. When the cops were called and her address and name given, wouldn't her previous report have come up?
I think Ashley did great, she kept me wanting to know what was gonna happen (I mean, we all knew he'd get her someway, just not how). And.. all the times he came into her room and just stared, I'm pretty sure I would have woken up having someone stare at me. But, guess, she was a heavy sleeper.
I can't bealieve it took a million to produce this.
yep... english is not my native lang. get over it.
seriously??? looks like anyone could have made this for less than 2k
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
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One of the worst movies I have seen in years. Looks like it was filmed with an IPhone. I know that was the intent, but was so lame!
shareMegan is Missing kinda had the same message 4 years ago. While it has some different points and this one has more advanced techonology, MiM was way more interesting.
shareYou're so right. I was expecting to unveil the interrogant, but the director choosed to the stupid way out. There's nothing to watch here. Total letdown.
shareI hated this movie's shaky cam/ first person crap angle.
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